Search results matching tags 'Big Data' and 'NoSQL'http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=Big+Data,NoSQL&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'Big Data' and 'NoSQL'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)Now Playing: RunAsRadiohttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2013/12/02/now-playing-runasradio.aspxMon, 02 Dec 2013 15:05:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:51984KKline<p><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">I had the privilege last week of talking with Richard Campbell (</span></font><a style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;" href="http://twitter.com/#!/richcampbell">t</a><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">), Microsoft MVP and host of the very popular&nbsp;</span></font><a style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;" href="http://runasradio.com/default.aspx">RunAsRadio</a><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">&nbsp;podcast, a sister-show to the worldwide phenomena known as&nbsp;</span></font><a style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;" href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/">.NET Rocks!</a><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">. &nbsp;I had the privilege of meeting Richard and his partner at .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">(</span></font><a style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:18.99305534362793px;" mce_href="http://twitter.com/#!/carlfranklin" href="http://sqlblog.com/controlpanel/blogs/null">t</a><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">), a few years back at the DevLink conference and we've made it a point to stay in touch ever since. &nbsp;Just as an FYI, there are lots of great DBA and database dev topics from the .NET Rocks podcast here (</span></font><a style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:18.99305534362793px;" href="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/tag.aspx?tag=Data">http://www.dotnetrocks.com/tag.aspx?tag=Data</a><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">)</span></font><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">, including an appearance I made back in 30-May-2013.</span><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">Here's the write-up Richard used to describe the show:</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;padding-left:30px;"><em>Richard talks to Kevin Kline about what's coming in SQL Server 2014. Yes, the database continues to evolve and Kevin digs into many of the new features. The conversation also jumps into the NoSQL movement and it's many forms, including making simple data storage easier for developers as well as the creation and management of big data solutions. Kevin also talks about the impact of new licensing models and new hardware of SQL, and how the role of the database in the organization continues to evolve.</em></p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;"><a title="Kevin Kline on RunAsRadio" href="http://sqlblog.com/controlpanel/blogs/null">LISTEN to Kevin and Richard on RunAsRadio</a>.</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">What sort of things would you like to hear about in the future? Trends? Specific technologies? Best practices? &nbsp;Let me know!</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">Happy holidays,</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">-Kevin</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/kekline">-Follow me on Twitter!</a><br><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/113032055249023350257?rel=author">-Google Author</a></p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:18.99305534362793px;">&nbsp;</p>Hadoop growing painshttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/piotr_rodak/archive/2012/06/21/hadoop-growing-pains.aspxThu, 21 Jun 2012 20:45:56 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:44001rodak.p@gmail.com<p>This post is not going to be about SQL Server. I have been reading recently more and more about “Big Data” – very catchy term that describes untamed increase of the data that mankind is producing each day and the struggle to capture the meaning of these data. Ten years ago, and perhaps even three years ago this need was not so recognized. Increasing number of smartphones and discernable trend of mainstream Internet traffic moving to the smartphone generated one means that there is bigger and bigger stream of information that has to be stored, transformed, analysed and perhaps monetized. The nature of this traffic makes if very difficult to wrap it into boundaries of relational database engines. The amount of data makes it near to impossible to process them in relational databases within reasonable time. This is where ‘cloud’ technologies come to play.</p> <p>I just read a good article about the <a href="http://ovum.com/2012/06/21/tooling-is-starting-to-tame-hadoop/" target="_blank">growing pains of Hadoop</a>, which became one of the leading players on distributed processing arena within last year or two. Toby Baer concludes in it that lack of enterprise ready toolsets hinders Hadoop’s apprehension in the enterprise world. While this is true, something else drew my attention. According to the article <u>there are already about half of a dozen of commercially supported distributions of Hadoop</u>. For me, who has not been involved into intricacies of open-source world, this is quite interesting observation. On one hand, it is good that there is competition as it is beneficial in the end to the customer. On the other hand, the customer is faced with difficulty of choosing the right distribution. In future, when Hadoop distributions fork even more, this choice will be even harder. The distributions will have overlapping sets of features, yet will be quite incompatible with each other. I suppose it will take a few years until leaders emerge and the market will begin to resemble what we see in Linux world. There are myriads of distributions, but only few are acknowledged by the industry as enterprise standard. Others are honed by bearded individuals with too much time to spend.</p> <p>In any way, the third fact I can’t help but notice about the proliferation of distributions of Hadoop is that IT professionals will have jobs.</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p> <div style="padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;display:inline;float:none;padding-top:0px;" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1c504cf7-cd4a-41b6-a76e-896b7e8a80ea" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">BuzzNet Tags: <a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/Hadoop" rel="tag">Hadoop</a>,<a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/Big+Data" rel="tag">Big Data</a>,<a href="http://www.buzznet.com/tags/Enterprise+IT" rel="tag">Enterprise IT</a></div></p>Two TechNet Radio Sessions You Don't Want to Misshttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2012/06/20/two-technet-radio-sessions-you-don-t-want-to-miss.aspxWed, 20 Jun 2012 20:12:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:43983KKline<p>I was recently honored to speak on TechNet Radio in two separate sessions about BigData &amp; Hadoop and cloud databases (specifically SQL Azure). The show debuted on the <a title="TechNet Edge" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us">TechNet homepage</a> under “Today’s News” and on the <a title="TechNet Edge" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/edge/default">TechNet Edge homepage</a>. In each of these shows, I did what I like to do for all the parties I attend - bring a friend. To make my life easier, I simply reposted the verbiage that TechNet used, rather that to write my own.</p><h2>About the BigData/Hadoop video:</h2><p>Microsoft SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline and Vice President of Database Development at Quest Software Guy Harrison (<a title="Guy Harrison's Blog" href="http://www.guyharrison.net/">blog </a>| <a title="Guy Harrison's Twitter Feed" href="http://twitter.com/guyharrison">twitter</a>), join us for today’s episode where we discuss Big Data and Hadoop ---from what it is, why its important as well what role does it play in cloud computing. </p><p><strong>Watch the video: <a title="Microsoft TechNet with Kevin Kline and Guy Harrison" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/technet-radio-community-corner-microsoft-mvp-kevin-kline-and-guy-harrison-on-big-data-and-hadoop.aspx">HERE</a> </strong> </p><p>Use the following short link to share the word with on Tweeter, Facebook, and LinkedIn: <a href="http://bit.ly/In8uu8">http://bit.ly/In8uu8</a> </p><h2>About the SQL Azure video: </h2><p>Microsoft SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline is back and brings with him Director of Development at Quest Software, Patrick O’Keefe. Tune in as they chat about the latest enhancements of SQL Server 2012, SQL Azure, as well as Project Lucy – a unique data analytics service in the cloud which offers insight on system and data performance through analytical presentations. </p><p><strong>Watch the video: <a title="Microsoft TechNet with Kevin Kline and Patrick O'Keefe" href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/technet-radio-community-corner-microsoft-mvp-kevin-kline-and-patrick-o-keefe-on-sql-server-2012-and-project-lucy.aspx">HERE </a></strong></p><p>Use the following short link to share the word with on Tweeter, Facebook, and LinkedIn: <a href="http://bit.ly/Hypc6z">http://bit.ly/Hypc6z</a></p>PASS Summit 2011, Day 3 - A Tribute to Wayne Snyderhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2011/10/14/pass-summit-2011-day-3-a-tribute-to-wayne-snyder.aspxFri, 14 Oct 2011 15:51:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:39047KKline<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/sqlpass/images/0671_low.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" title="Wayne Snyder" alt="" src="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/sqlpass/images/0671_low.jpg" width="373" height="557"><br> </a>First things first, Wayne Snyder is rolling off the board of directors for PASS this year. We'd worked together, shoulder to shoulder along with Joe Webb (<a href="http://webbtechsolutions.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> | @<a href="http://twitter.com/joewebb" target="_blank">joewebb</a>) and other outstanding members of the SQL Server community, for many years of on the PASS board of directors and I'm certain that my tenure on the board and as president of the organization would've been nothing but trouble had Wayne not been there, covering my blind side(s), at every turn. Here's my tribute to Wayne Snyder:</p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><span>If you were to mention “Wayne Snyder” to me, I’d instantly start to grin and, probably, nod a little bit. Wayne is the kind of leader who always comes to mind with overpowering and emotional warmth. Sometimes when you visualize a memory of a person, you see them in your mind’s eye stooped over a console deep in thought or pontificating at a meeting somewhere deep in corporate America. But when I recall Wayne, I always see an image of Wayne smiling with his arms out wide as if he’s going to wrap you in the biggest, most comforting, Southern-fried, big brother hug you’ve had all year. And that image is loaded with all kinds of deep positive connotations: supportive, enthusiastic, sincere offer you thoughtful conversation, honest convictions, and straight answers. </span></p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><span>To use an analogy, some leaders are only the “thermostat” of their organization – they set the temperature for everyone else. But Wayne was also the “thermometer” as well – he showed what temperature at which our organization was running. And that temperature is <em>warm</em>. As a PASS member, you knew within a heartbeat that it was ok to give a shout-out back to the speaker in a crowded auditorium, that there were no stupid questions, that it was ok to be the one who knew the least in the room because, in fact, <em>he </em>was the guy who knew the least in the room once and here he was to help you become the one who knew the <em>most</em> in the room! I honestly can’t count the number of people who Wayne recruited into the ranks of PASS simply by being Wayne.</span></p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><span>Thank you, Wayne, for your many years of service to our community. And thank you most of all for acting as the wellspring of our communities exuberant, uplifting, and just plain fun attitude of embodied in our motto of “Learn. Grow. Share”. No one does it better than you.</span></p><p>Now, it goes without saying that Dr. Dewitt's keynote is one of the singlemost anticipated sessions of the entire event. Why? As Dr. Dewitt mentions himself, the hallmark of his sessions are a semester of graduate school IT learning distilled into one hour of awesomeness. There are lots of great resources discussing NoSQL on the internet (and I've pointed out a lot of them in the past). But who wouldn't rather leapfrog months of on-the-side research learning about NoSQL by enjoying Dr. Dewitt's keynote? Watch the streaming video at this <a title="Livestreaming SQLPASS keynote" href="http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011/Live/LiveStreaming/LiveStreamingFriday.aspx" target="_blank">SQLPASS link</a>.</p><p>And if you're here at the PASS Summit on Day 3, I hope to see you in my two sessions this afternoon:</p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong><a href="http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011/Speakers/CallForSpeakers/SessionDetail.aspx?sid=2006" target="_blank">Crash! Boom! Bang! 10 Ways to Blow Up Castle SQL Server and the Techniques that Catch Them</a></strong> (DBA-318)<br> <em>Enterprise Database, Administration and Deployment, </em>Regular Session (75 minutes) in 3AB</p><p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong><a href="http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011/Speakers/CallForSpeakers/SessionDetail.aspx?sid=1509" target="_blank">Are you a Linchpin? Career management lessons to help you become indispensible. </a></strong> (PD-200)<br> <em>Professional Development, </em>Regular Session (75 minutes) in 4C4</p><p> Follow me on <a title="C'mon. You know you want to." href="http://twitter.com/kekline" target="_blank">Twitter</a>!</p>What I'm Reading, July 22 2011http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2011/07/21/what-i-m-reading-july-22-2011.aspxThu, 21 Jul 2011 14:43:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:37152KKline<br>I read too much, and that, my friends, is an entirely separate topic for a blog post. But I thought I'd share with you a little more about what I'm reading because sometimes, if I'm lucky, it might be something you'd enjoy too.
So I'm going to start sharing what I'm reading at least once per week, partly so that I don't firehose too many reading links directly into your brain (where I to do it say once per month) and partly to solidify in my own mind the information that I'm reviewing. So here are a few good links for the seven days leading up to July 22, 2001:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/18/big-data-new-insights" title="Whitehouse: From Big Data to New Insights" target="_blank">Microsoft and Whitehouse partnership on BigData</a>: BigData isn't a particularly new concept. But I was intrigued to learn that the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, and 13 other teams were partnering on developing better BigData analytics for lots of government data from activities such as healthcare, economic development, education, transportation, and the power grid. Cools stuff! Plus, Microsoft has developed a new tool called <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/daytona.aspx" title="Microsoft Research's Project Daytona" target="_blank">Project Daytona</a> to better harness the power of the cloud, in general, and Windows Azure, specifically.</li>
<li>While we're on the topic of <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/357387/Feds_begin_race_to_the_cloud" title="ComputerWorld: Feds race to the cloud" target="_blank">Federal IT in the Cloud</a> be sure to read this linked article from <a href="http://www.computerworld.com" title="ComputerWorld Magazine" target="_blank">ComputerWorld</a>. Say what you will about our government, but putting government IT in the cloud and increasing both its transparency and availability will make a huge difference in how the Federal government will be able to service the public. We're talking as big a difference as corporations experienced between the "catalog on the web" experience of the 1990's to the Web2.0 experience of today.</li>
<li>If you're the social media type, give this article a read discussing the<a href="http://searchengineland.com/the-power-of-hashtags-on-twitter-84408" title="The Power of Hashtags in Social Media" target="_blank"> Power of Hashtags in Social Media</a>.</li>
<li>The Register, of the UK, whose tagline is "Biting the hand that feeds IT" has a great article on a <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/13/mike_stonebraker_versus_facebook/" title="The Register" target="_blank">spat over database technologies between the IT sage Michael Stonebreaker and Google</a>. It's a great read if for no other reason than to prove that databases are worth fighting over.</li>
<li>And if you think Microsoft is still towing the relational database barge without thinking about other technologies, you need to read up on Projects <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad/" title="Microsoft Project Dryad" target="_blank">Dryad</a> and <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/headlines/daytona-071811.aspx" title="Microsoft Project Daytona" target="_blank">Daytona</a>.</li>
<li>Finally, I'm still getting lots of questions about when and where to limit SQL Server's Max Degrees of Parallelism. Be sure to read <a href="http://sqlblog.com/ControlPanel/Blogs/and%20Guidelines%20for%20%27max%20degree%20of%20parallelism%27%20configuration%20option" title="Microsoft SQL Server MAXDOP" target="_blank">Microsoft's Recommendations and Guidelines for 'max degree of parallelism'</a> configuration option here.</li>
</ul><p>
And just because so many of us in IT are closet or former musicians, there's <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/gibson-learn-and-master-live-lessons" title="Gibson Learn and Master Series" target="_blank">Live Guitar Lessons with Steven Krenz</a>, sponsored by my hometown boyz at <a href="http://www2.gibson.com/Gibson.aspx" title="Gibson Guitars, in my hometown of Nashville, TN" target="_blank">Gibson Guitar</a>.
Got a favorite article or tool tip? Let me know! Enjoy,
</p><p>-Kev
</p><p>&nbsp;Follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/kekline" title="C'mon. You know you want to!" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</p>Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Datahttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2011/07/14/getting-ahead-of-the-curve-big-data.aspxThu, 14 Jul 2011 14:41:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:36935KKlineI have to confess that I'm incredibly excited about BigData. I haven't been this excited about new innovations in IT since relational databases first appeared on the scene early in my career. But what is BigData?
Back in those days, I can still feel the echos of adrenaline when I was hired to work on a NASA project that would involve over 100Mb of data. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>ONE HUNDRED MEGABYTES!</strong></span> Good grief, that was fantastically huge to us on the team. (That database was over 130Mb when I finally moved on to another project). And remember - PC software was installed using 640Kb floppy disks at the time. In fact, my Oracle v5 instance required shuffling through about a dozen floppy disks to get the thing installed on a 286 IBM PC.
BigData today takes on an entirely meaning as database sizes scale into the petabytes. But the emphasis is still the same today as it was back in the 1980's - <em>turning data into actionable information</em>. However, with BigData, we can achieve amazing new insight from this data and mine for tidbits that would never have seen the light of day with smaller data sets.
The two major themes to remember about big data are 1) the more data you have on a given domain, the more power you have, 2) the better the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">analysis</span> you can perform on the data, the more power you have. In fact, theme 2 might be the most important thing to consider because lots of data is meaningless unless you can extract knowledge from it. And that's where better analytical techniques come into play.
Here are some articles about Big Data that you might enjoy:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blogs.infor.com/inside/2011/05/introducing-big-data.html" title="Bruce Richardson, CIO of INFOR" target="_blank">Bruce Richardson Introduces Big Data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/index.asp" title="McKinsey Global Institute" target="_blank">McKinsey Global Institute Report on Big Data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sqlblog.com/controlpanel/blogs/Chris%20Boorman:%20Big%20Data%20is%20Coming,%20Are%20You%20Prepared" title="Chris Boorman of Informatica" target="_blank">Chris Boorman: Big Data is Coming, Are You Prepared?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ramonchen.com/?p=3170" title="Ramon Chen's Great Blog on Cloud Computing" target="_blank">Ramon Chen: LinkedIn's IPO - A Perfect Storm of Big Data, Open Source and Cloud Computing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110526/seven-questions-about-big-data-and-analytics-for-ibms-steven-mills/?refcat=enterprise" title="Arik Heeseldahl: From the Wall Street Journal" target="_blank">AllThingsD: Seven Questions About Big Data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smartercomputingblog.com/2011/05/26/a-match-made-in-heaven-data-quality-and-big-data-a-lesson-from-the-past/" title="Andrew Manby on the SmarterComputing Blog" target="_blank">SmarterComputingBlog: A Match Made in Heaven - Data Quality and Bid Data</a></li>
</ul>
Let me know what you think. Best regards,
-Kev
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